214	THE PALMS OF BRITISH  INDIA AND CEYLON
Coco de raer. Coco de Salomon, Double Coco, Cul de Negresse,
Coco des Seychelles Coco de Tile Praslin, Cocotier des lies
Sechellos, Cocotior d<*s Maldives, Cocotior des Seychelles, Lodoice
des Maldives, Lodoicee, Lodoieeu ties Seehelles (French).
Coco das Maldivas, Coco do Mar (Fortune. )•
Meervoros, Soecocos, Doppelte Cocosnusw, Wundernuss
Salomons, Maldivischo Xurfs, Kokosartig-e Lodoicee (Germ.).
Dubhele Cocosnoot van de Seychelles, Dubbele Klapper, Male-
divische Noot, Seychellennoot, Zeeklapper (Dutch).
Darya-ka-naryal (Hind.).
Darya-ka-narel (Decc,).
Jahari-naral (Bomb.).
Kadat-rengay (Tarn.).
Samudrapu-tenkaya (Tel.).
Katal-tenna (Malay.).
Darya-nu-iiaviyal (Guz.).
Mudu-pol (Sing.).
Peiile-on-si (Burm.).
Ts'arjile-bahri (Arab.).
Nargile-bahri (Pers.)
Calappa Laut (called so by the Dutch in the Indian. Archipelago)..
Djenggi, Djenggli, Kelapa Latit, Kej>o djenggi, Pelok djenggi
(Java),
description.—Trunk 60-100 feet high, straight, apparently
destitute of bark, annulate, about 1 foot in diameter, with
scarcely any difference in size to the very top. Leaves 12-20,
large, 8-10 feet long, 5-6 feet broad (sometimes up to 20 feet
long and 12 broad), the youngest rising from the centre, at first
folded like a shut fan, and then clothed with a downy substance,
later on broadly-ovate with a central rib and regular folds
diverging from it; margins more or less deeply cut, especially
at the extremity; the colour bright yellow green; texture thin
and dry.
Spathes sheathing at the base of the spadices, small. Male
and female flowers on different treQS. Male spadix from the
axils cf the leaves, amentaceous, from 2-4 feet long, 3-4 inches
in diameter in the thickest part, cylindrical, tapering towards
the apex, closely covered on all sides with densely imbricated,
semicircular, slightly convex scales. When looking externally
at these scales, a small aperture will be perceived, from which